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2014/12/12

Dimension war guide

updated: 2015-02-09Dimension war is a very nice new
feature of Wartune. It's a refined version of the underground palace.
If we shall ever see underground palace again is a mystery, but I
would regret not being able to collect the mount from there.

How to start

To start this event, you must speak to
NPC Lycus in Cloud city (between sylph arena and market). He will give you a basic coordinate chest.
Opening it, you will get a "basic XX dmiension coordinate", which you need to use. After that,
you can enter your dimension through the mystic gate in your city.

Movement

These Wartune dimension can have 6
elemental forms, like your sylphs. Each day, you start with 1500
energy in the dimension. Each movement to a new square costs some
energy. The higher your given resistance, the less. For this reason,
you are recommended to have all 6 types of sylphs, and equip the
proper type while moving inside. A weak, white sylph will suffice,
monsters are very weak (except the bosses in advanced / expert). It is also good to convert your resistance
crystals to the type of the dimension. When I entered a dimension
with the wrong sylph, one move cost 50 energy. When I equipped the
proper sylph, one move cost only 30 energy. After I converted 5 lvl 5
resist crystals to the dimension's, movement cost was reduced to 21
energy (further decreased to 20 after I entered the 2nd
level). You can reduce your movement cost to as low as 10 energy, if you have multiple dimensions of the same type conquered!

Please note if you move to a square
which you already visited, it cost you no energy.

The map

This mini game is pretty simple, you
will discover how it works very fast. It has 5 levels, each level
consist of 12 x 8 squares for basic and intermediate (the advanced and expert levels are rougly 4 times bigger). When you move to a new square, you also
see the neighboring squares around you, so you don't have to step on each to discover a level.Also, there is a trick when moving around: after you discovered some of a level, you can move around clicking on any far square, and your toon will run there automatically.My suggestion is that you run through each level in a S shape, so you discover every square using the minimum amount of energy. After you conquered the dimension, and get all the bonuses, you can come back to loot everything.

The goal

There are 2 things you must find on
each map: the entrance to the next level, and the special objects (for
example, Tree of Life in wind) which you must occupy to own the
level. Some dimension levels need more than one object to occupy. To enter the next level, you must occupy all objects.

Loot

Unlike in underground palace, the loot
here does not improve much further levels, unfortunately. You can find
the same items like in underground palace (mahra, sepulcrum, skeleton
key, beredin's wine etc). They also added the new items needed for
making, refining and enchanting sylph equipment. There is also plenty
of bound balens, but I did not see a spirit covenant or VIP like in
underground palace, and no big treasure chest either. Instead of
that, you get X chests in mail each day, where X equals the special
objects you occupied. The 2 chests I got after 1 day contained one
runstone, and one skeleton key, quite neglectable. After occupying last level, I got a chest, with the items inside you see on the first screenshot above.*

You can find merchants who sell items
for balen, the prices are ridiculous as usual, the only good deal
people report is mire rune (probably nerfed with today's patch).

Also there are kill/revive objects like
in U.P., and some which increase your energy.* Please note that the rewards have been severely reduced in February. See changes here.Dimension typesThere are 4 different dimensions: basic, intermediate, advanced and expert. Basic last for 10, intermediate for 14, advanced for 35, expert for 70 days. The loot you find inside is exactly the same, but intermediate has 10 levels. Advanced has 10 levels too, but each level is 4 times bigger. I haven't visited expert, but someone said it's 30 (!!) levels. With 10 energy per move, you can complete a basic in 1 day, an intermediate in 2 days, an advanced in a week, an expert, maybe a month? Do not try advanced or expert unless you have very high resist and can move for 10 energy!You can get dimensions the following ways:

collect dimension shards inside the dimension by killing guardians, and forging under blacksmith into a chest.

get lucky and open one from the dimension chest you get as a reward each day for completed dimensions.

Move in an S line, to explore the full level by spending a minimum amount of energy. With each level completed, the bonus you get increase, and movement cost is reduced. You should loot up everything outside of your path only after you conquered the dimension, and have no room for more dimensions in your Mysic gate.

You can buy an additional 100 energy
for 45 balens (5 times a day). I don't think it's a good idea to spend balen on
this, cost more balens than the reward worth, but sometimes when you need a few more steps to complete a dimension you can spend the bound balens you earned here.

Strategy

Dimensions give a good resist bonus, which is useful in combat. For this reason, I recommend doing dimensions which give protection vs the most popular sylphs: electro or dark. You have to try do to dimensions of the same type, so their bonus stack together, and you can move cheaper and cheaper. Ideally, if you collected a bunch of electro or dark dimensions, start doing whichever is more numerous. If you you have a small collection, then start doing something of which have the most (my first dimensions were fire).You should start off doing a basic dimension. Convert your 5 best resist crystals to that type so you move for the minimal energy. After that, do one more basic, the one more: until your movement cost is reduced to 10. At this moment, you can do an intermediate. Keep doing basic and intermediate until your dimension list is full. Please note that with VIP9, you can have 5 dimensions.When your dimension list is full, you can start looting them. In basic, open only the chests, in intermediate you can do the fights as well so you get more intermediate dimension shards.The dimension has a lifetime, after
that, it expires, and you need to summon a new dimension. You will
always have enough pieces from killing the guardians to create a
basic dimension chest. You can extend the dimension by using dimension essences, which are rare drop from the final chest. About advanced dimensions: eventually you will be "lucky" to find one in an intermediate reward chest. Do it ONLY if your movement cost is 10, and your other dimensions still have 5+ days lifetime. Advanced dimension levels are 4 times bigger than basic, but it has the same number of loot. So in other words, you get 4 times less loot for your energy. Still, the final resist boost is nice, so it's okay to do it (but only if the above conditions are met). Since the nerf, I don't think doing expert dimension is a good idea. You miss out an incredible amount of loot.

So this was a very nice event, good for
non-cashers as well. Too bad they nerfed it, reduced the final resist bonus significantly, and severely reduced the treasure in the final chests.

Get all 5 levels done ASAP. You will get +3% will crystals effect, +3% RES CRYSAL effect, and a chest that gives 10 mahra/sep, 30 will/crystal shards, and 3 sylph gear enchant items each a day, including a chance at more coords. It's definitely worth doing that and then going back to get everything else done.

Ok, will check this. So far, each level I looked for entrance to next level and occupy the object, and then tried to move up to next level, and it always worked, so you must be right. But killing guardians is ok, we need the shards anyway :)

When you have intermediate or higher it is a good idea to have a basic or 2 completed for its resistance type. The extra res will get u down to 10 energy per move, making your dimensional travels more rewarding :). I am currently working on an expert that I won of an advanced chest (which was won off an intermediate)

time to revise this, the loot is better the deeper you go into the dimension maybe not for basic, but for intermediate and advanced, also intermediate is not the same as basic, intermediate shards are available in intermediate and not available in basic, the other difference is the occupation reward in terms of resistance is higher than a basic. i would much rather have an intermediate in stead of basic, but i guess it depends on whether or not you want to have more resistance....

Yes, when you can move for 10 energy, then intermediate is good. I wouldn't say loot is better, but at 10 energy per move you can complete an intermediate in 2 days, so you lose only one chest compared to doing basics. Also, the final resist bonus is better too. Advanced dimensions, I recommend it only if you can do it from the beginning at 10 energy per move, and you don't really need mahra or sepulcrum since you have orange sylph. In advanced, loot is very bad. Each level is 4 times bigger than in basic/int, but the level has the same number of loots as an int. level. But, the final buff is very good. So if you are a strong character, who have maxed sylph, and high resist (to win in pvp) is more important, you can do that too.

I'm so upset; I got locked out of dimensions because my realms expired or something, and I don't have enough shards to create a new coordinate chest (nor did i receive any in drops). I know, I'm an idiot - i was on a hiatus when it was introduced, and should have checked it out more fully once i started doing it, but I kept forgetting about it. Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm trying to rebuild my br after my hiatus, and I feel like I'm really missing out. Any input would be appreciated!

If nothing else, you can get a free dimension if you log in each day, from daily rewards. Also there are dimension shards in most event chests, and there is usually dimension shard in hot event rewards too.

There aren't many shards in our events at the moment, which is why i was so worried, but it's very reassuring that i can at least get one at the end of the month (as long as i don't miss any more days!) Thank you so much - I feel much better now that there's a carrot at the end of the stick lol

Hey, thanks for the post. I have a question. I killed all the guards and bosses froma water dimension, but I have no final reward, I just did it in my second day. I see there are two levels that contain 1 event not done, but there are no more monsters. Only merchants wich require balens .... and I don't have none :(

hi! you get the reward in mailbox, and it's only resist and will crystals, nothing else. The amount depends on the levels you conquered. There is no final reward for completing the entire dimension. I suggest you dont do trials, only Expert and master trials, and try to find the bases then the stair as fast as possible.